Brick Rotary Club Accomplishments for the 2013-2014 Rotary Year

Posted by Marie Joyce Van Haeren 
 

These accomplishments are the result of our club and its members engaging in Rotary Activities in the first quarter of the Rotary year.

 

•  Have re-established a strong relationship, communication and support for the Earlyact and Interact Clubs of Brick

•  Awarded Scholarship checks to 9 students of Brick

•  Sponsored 2 Brick High School students to RYLA

•  Supported Relay for Life and Arnie’s Rotary Rowdies with the Pancake Breakfast

•  Hosted another successful Brick Bullet Proof Vest Fund Dance

•  Supplied over 55 backpacks and supplies to Brick students

•  Helped provide landscaping services to Dottie’s House

•  Continued support to the District Gift of Life program that directly helped save 30 children’s live with open heart surgeries

•  Hosted another successful Dog Fest event

•  Purchased dictionaries for every third grade student in Brick Township through a Literacy Project

•  Established the Joe Perna Memorial Scholarship Fund for graduating students of Brick wishing to study Criminology

•  Supported the re-building efforts for “Sandy’s Castle” in Point Pleasant Beach

•  Supporting the Brick High School Interact food drive

•  Through the Future Vision Grant Management Program, secured a total of $3200 for the Visitation Relief Center in Brick.  This is in addition to the $6000 we donated last Rotary year bringing our Club’s total to $9200.  District 7500 also made a donation of $14,300 to Visitation Relief Center bringing Rotary's combined total contribution to $23,500.

  • Organized 2 Blood Drives with the American Red Cross
  • Supported the Brick High Interact Food Drive
  • Supported U.S. Marine Corps Toys for Tots drive
  • With one of our Brick Interact Clubs, we purchased 2 Shelter Boxes for Philippines relief
  • Have two members participate in two different trips to India in support of the Eradication of Polio program
  • Clothes drive for the Mother Theresa Orphanage in India
  • First Annual Walk for Humanity allowing the community to raise money and bring awareness to a charity of their choice